"Oracle and IBM today announced that the companies will collaborate to allow developers and customers to build and innovate based on existing Java investments and the OpenJDK reference implementation. Specifically, the companies will collaborate in the OpenJDK community to develop the leading open source Java environment."

Well, I guess most people couldn't use C with the same productivity, but, yeah, it could be done.

Once again, I apologize for jumping to conclusions, because the whole thing might be misunderstanding on my part. I am not 100% sure, because it's 3am over here.

Anyhow, there are plenty of more suitable Java alternatives for web dev. C# comes to mind, for example. C wouldn't be high on my list of alternatives. Just because it can be done, does not mean it should be done.

I withdraw from this conversation and I hope that, ranting aside, I made some valid points...